| Acronym | Meaning |
| NBS | Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome |
| AQG | Air Quality Guideline |
| GAMP | Global Atmospheric Measurements Program |
| HIS | High Intensity Spectrometer |
| MSAE | Multistate Atomic Expansion (method For At. Collisions) |
| EMBL | European Molecular Biology Laboratory |
| UCT | University Of Cape Town |
| FNAA | Fast Neutron Activation Analysis |
| STPM | Scanning Thermopower Microscopy |
| HOPG | Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite |